Steve Barlow is president of Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. and a staff attorney for the City of Memphis. Steve has been involved in community organizing, legislative advocacy, and community development efforts in Memphis since 1995, and has led efforts for the past 8 years to use civil litigation in the Shelby County Environmental Court to enforce blight reduction and hold negligent property owners accountable. He founded Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. in 2011 to help remove the systemic barriers to revitalizing Memphis neighborhoods. Its flagship program is the Blight Elimination Steering Team, a cross-agency collaboration where more than 30 organizations from the public, private, and non-profit sectors meet monthly to collaborate on responding to vacancy and abandoned property. The Blight Elimination Steering Team created the Memphis Property Hub in 2015 as a community data portal for neighborhood and community leaders to become equipped with the data they need to preserve and revitalize their neighborhoods

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2. What is the Memphis Property
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3. How does it help government?
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We at NPI are dedicated to promoting neighborhood revitalization,
developing practical and sustainable resolutions to blighted properties,
and collaborating to change systems that lead to widespread neglect of
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• Started in 2015
• Initiative of the Memphis Blight Elimination
Steering Team
• Spearheaded by University of Memphis,
Innovate Memphis, and NPI
What is the Memphis Property Hub?

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• Community Open Data Portal
• 15+ Local Data Sources from various
governmental data partners
• In 2017 partnered with PolicyMap to
overlay locally sourced data
• Coming alongside to expand access to
tools for data driven decision making
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• Most active users are governmental
employees
• Regular trainings for all levels of
government from admin to legislator
• Provide hands-on technical assistance
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• Creates space for intra and inter-
governmental dialogues to take place
• Bridging the gap between community and
local government
– Participatory GIS projects at neighborhood
level to create accessible data for community
advocacy and improvement
• Government is in a position to respond to
data driven opportunities
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President | NPI Memphis
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